Typographical composing-machine



D. S. KENNEDY.

TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION HLED JAN.I5,192I- a SHEETS-SHEET 1.

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TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING MACHINE,

APPLICATION FILED JAN-15.192!- NVENTOR Patented Nov. 22, 1921.

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D. S. KENNEDY.

TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED IAN-15,1921- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID S. KENNEDY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR 'IO MERGENTHALER LIN O'I'YPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSIN G-MACHIN E.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 22, 1921.

Original application filed October 8, 1919, Serial No. 329,339. Divided and this application filed January 15, 1921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID S. KENNEDY, a citizen of the United States, residin at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and tate of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Typographical Composing-Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing, being a division of an application filed by me October 8, 1919, Ser. No. 329,339.

My invention relates to typographical machines, such as linotype machines of the general organization represented in Letters Patent of the United States to O. Mergenthaler, No. 436,532, wherein circulating matrices are released from a magazine in the order in which their characters are to appear in print and then assembled in line, the composed line transferred to the face of a slotted mold, the mold filled with molten metal to form a slug or linotype against the matrices which produce the type characters thereon, and the matrices thereafter returned through distributing mechanism to the magazine from which they started.

In my application Serial No. 329,339 above referred to, there is presented a machine for handling extra thick matrices suitable for head-letter and display work, etc.,t hematr1x fonts for sizes up to 30 pt. comprising seventy-two characters, and the matrix fonts for larger sizes, up to 36 pt. and above, comprising but fifty-five characters. The matrix fonts of both kinds are adapted to be stored in the same form of magazine, but the matrices of the fifty-five character fonts are arranged in the magazine in a different order as to character from that of the matrices of the seventy-two character fonts. In said application, therefore, adjustable means are provided whereby the main keyboard may be operatively connected to the magazine in use, whether it contains a matrix font of one kind or the other, and in such manner that the finger keys will effect the release of the matrices bearing the same character in either case.

The present invention is directed to a different arrangement for effecting the release of the matrices in the required manner. Generally speaking, this arrangement contemplates the use of a main keyboard for the seventy-two character matrix fonts and of a Serial No. 438,062.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation showing the supplemental keyboard in operative position. 7

I have herein shown only those parts of the machine immediately concerned with in present invention. For any further details, reference may be had to my application Ser. No. 329,339, which shows the machine in its entirety.

As before stated, for the seventy-two character matrix fonts, there is employed a main keyboard having as many finger keys E as there are characters in the individual fonts, said finger keys as customary being arranged in the same order as to character as the matrices are arranged in the magazine channels. These finger keys E are connected by the usual actuating slides N to the trip dogs E of the various cam yokcs E which, through the engagement of the cams E and power-driven rolls E operate the escapement actuating reeds E in effecting the release of the matrices from the magazine (not shown). For the fifty-five character matrix fonts, a second or supplemental keyboard M is employed having only as many finger keys as there are characters in such individual fonts, which ranged in a different order as to character from that of the corresponding matrices in the magazine. This supplemental keyboard is adapted to be applied to the main keyboard and includes connections through which its keys actuate such keys of the main keyboard as are operatively connected to the magazine channels containing matrices bearing the same character.

For the sake of clearness and to avoid unnecessary duplication, only the connections from the fifth row or bank of keys are herein illustrated. These connections (Fig. 3) consist essentially of rocking bails or levers finger keys are ar- V the connections which they 'mounted to turnupon-one or another of a series of pivot rods 0 to 0 At one end,

,the bails are provided with laterally projecting studs m arranged to be engaged by the finger keys, although as in the case of the semi-colon, the projecting studs may be located on the finger keys. And in the case of the letter g, the stud is omitted altogether, its finger key being arranged to engage directly the cross member of the bail M At their. opposite ends, the bails are provided with depending pieces m which are arranged toengage similar studs m projecting from the main key levers E, except in the case of the letters I and L, whose bails M and M respectively, are arranged to engage'the projecting studs m directly and without the intervention of the depending pieces m It will be understood, of course, that the form and arrangement of the bails will vary according to the nature of are intended to make, as will be apparent from Fig. (2); Thus, the bail M is formed and arranged to connect the supplemental key M for the letter i with the main key E for the letter 0. Similarly, the bail M is formed and arranged to connect the second supplemental key for the letter b with the main key for the letter C. The remaining bails are formed and'arranged in like manner to connect the supplemental keys for the characters .K EM and H, respectively. It will .contained fifty-five character he noted that whereas the supplemental finger keys are all arranged in the same row (the .fifth) of the supplemental keyboard, they are caused to actuate main keys which are located in every one of the six rows of the main keyboard and in different vertical tiers. The connections for the other keys are of similar character, being arranged to provide for the actuation of such keys of the main keyboard as will release from the magazine the corresponding matrices of the font, notwithstanding the different character arrangement of such matrices in .the magazine. W hen, then, the supplemental keyboard is in use, its finger keys are arranged in one order as to character and are operatively con nected to a magazine containing matrices arranged in a ditferent order as to character, which feature presents many advantages, being utilized herein for the supplemental finger keys in the same order as to character as those of the main keyboard, so that the two keyboards may be used interchangeably without involving any alteration in or rearrangement of key buttons.

its front, the supporting frame .seventytwo-character font.

the arrangement of In addition it allows the supplemental finger keys to be brought together and disposed in symmetrical relation as ordinarily, thereby avoiding the unequal spacing and promiscuous arrangement of the keys that would otherwise be necessary to operate the required keys of the main keyboard.

'The various parts of the supplemental keyboard are all mounted in a box-like supporting frame 1 comprising a slotted top plate wherein the key'button extensions are guided and a similarly slotted bottom plate wherein the projecting portions of the rock ing bails or their depending pieces are confined and guided. The frame P is hinged, as at P to a bracket P secured to the side of the main keyboard frame so as to be swung to and from its operative position as desired; it being noted that the actuating connections from the finger keys M will be engaged with and disengaged from the finger keys E as the supplemental keyboard is applied thereto and removed from the main keyboard. At

' is formed with a' grooved or channeled member P, which fits over and seats upon the usual rock shaft P of the assembler elevator when the supplemental keyboard is in use. A gravity 'catchP cooperating with a pin P on the frame P serves to hold it in 1ts inoperative position (see dotted lines in Fig. 3),

lVliile my improvements have been herein illustrated in connection with the special seventy-two and fifty-five character matrix fonts before described, it should be understood that they are equally applicable to other matrix fonts as well. For instance, in my co-pending application Serial No. 463A36 there is illustrated a machine capable of handling the above seventy-two-character matrix fonts as well. as the regular ninetycharacter matrix fonts. To apply the present improvements to a machine ofthat kind, it would merely be necessary to make use of a supplemental keyboard with seventy-two finger keys (as distinguished from the fiftyfive herein) and to arrange the connections therefrom insuch manner as to actuate these keys of the main keyboard as would effect therelease of the appropriate matrices of the provements 'will be useful in any machine employing interchangeable or transposable magazines in which matrices bearing the same characters are differently arranged or located. In other words, I have shown my invention only in preferred form and by way of example, and as applied. to the particular kind of machine described, but obviously many modifications and alterations therein and in its mode of adaptation will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art and still be comprised withinitsscope. 1

Having thus described my invention, its construction and mode of operation, what I In fact, the imclaim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

1. In a typographical machine adapted to be equipped with a magazine containing a set of matrices arranged in one order as to character or with a magazine containing a set of matrices arranged in different order as to character, the combination of a main keyboard having its finger keys arranged in same order as to character as the matrices of one set, and means whereby said finger keys may be operatively connected to the appropriate channels of the magazine containing such matrix set, with a supplemental keyboard having its finger keys arranged in a different order as to character from that of the matrices of the other set, and means whereby the finger keys of said supplemental keyboard may be operatively connected to the appropriate channels of the magazine containing such other matrix set.

2. In a typographical machine adapted to be equipped with a magazine containing a set of matrices arranged in one order as to character or a set of matrices having a less number of characters and arranged in a different order as to character, the combination of a main keyboard having as many finger keys as there are characters in the first set of matrices and arranged in the same order as to character, and means whereby said finger keys may be operatively connected to the appropriate channels of the magazine containing such matrix set, with a supplemental keyboard having only as many finger keys as there are characters in the other set of matrices and arranged in a different order as to character from that of the matrices of said set. and means whereby the finger keys of said supplemental keyboard may be operatively connected to the appropriate channels of the magazine containing such other matrix set.

In a typographical machine, the combination of a matrix magazine having escapements to control the release of matrices therefrom, a main keyboard having its finger keys operatively connected to the escapements, a supplemental keyboard superimposed upon the main keyboard, and means through which the finger keys of said supplemental keyboard actuate differently located keys of the main keyboard in effect ing the release of the matrices from the magazine.

4. In a typographical machine. the combination of a matrix magazine having escapements to control the release of matrices therefrom, a main keyboard having its finger keys operatively connected to the escapements, a supplemental keyboard superimposed upon the main keyboard and having its finger keys arranged in the same order as to character, and connections through which the finger keys of the supplemental keyboard actuate dissimilar keys of the main keyboard.

5. In a typographical machine, the combination of a matrix magazine having escapements to control the release of matrices therefrom, a main keyboard having its finger keys operatively connected to the escapements, a supplemental keyboard superimposed upon the main keyboard and having a less number of finger keys, and connections through which the finger keys of the supplemental keyboard actuate differently located keys of the main keyboard in effecting the release of matrices from the magazine.

6. In a typographical machine, the combination of a matrix magazine having escapements to control the release of matrices therefrom, a main keyboard having its finger keys operatively connected to the escapements, a supplemental keyboard having a less number of finger keys than that of the main keyboard and arranged in same order as to character, and connections through which the supplemental keys actuate dissimilar main keys in effecting the release of matrices from the magazine.

7. A supplemental keyboard adapted to be superimposed upon the main keyboard of a linotype machine and comprising a series of finger keys, and devices operated thereby to engage and actuate differently located keys of the main keyboard.

8. A supplemental keyboard adapted to be applied to the main keyboard of a linotype machine and comprising a series of finger keys arranged in the same order as to character as the keys of the main keyboard, and devices operated by the supplemental finger keys to engage and actuate differently located keys of the main keyboard.

9. A supplemental keyboard adapted to be applied to the main keyboard of a linotype machine and comprising a series of finger keys less in number than those of the main keyboard, and devices operated by the supplemental finger keys to engage and actuate differently located keys of the main keyboard.

10. A supplemental keyboard adapted to be applied to the main keyboard of a linotype machine and comprising a series of finger keys less in number than those of the main keyboard and arranged in the same order as to character, and devices operated by the supplemental finger keys to engage and actuate differently located keys of the main keyboard.

In testimony whereof, I have affixed my signature hereto.

DAVID S. KENNEDY. 

